Annals of Toil

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 32, 8 March 1912, Page 11

Annals of Toil

10 union is tho only organisation can raise your wages and shorten • hours j stand by it till the last expires. « .; * tho workers as a wholo bothered r heads about their own affairs hnlt' inch as they do about those ot tin , ocracy, they would be bettor nil. • * « , Doiiblo Hill this .war there ;e vptoran shcarcs —R. Jhirpi-ss 'of cloy) and D. McLean (of Christch) —who have been on tho slxaiboards for 41 yoars, and art , still to do ovrr 100 shwp each per with the blades. » - » i arrangement has been arrived at ho ivooli'onibors and gaswofKers at Ifor<l, England, by which tho two us will recognise each other's meniso that gasworkcrs may obtain oyment as wooleombers in the nor time, and tho wooleombers work <vs gasworkers in the. winter. * * lunian life wae never valued lower to-cliiy. Luxury may reign, epii may live, fashions be promoted, material things made more to subi to man's pleasure, yet, in spite iese, the. value and saciednoss of an life are growing less," said bishop John J. Glen won in a sonno.ii at tiic CatJicdral chapel at Amis, U.S.A. # * # all the workers in Now Zealand class (writes a correspondent to •N.Z. Herald") may be singled out c. followers of a more arduous oetion than any other. Pick-and->l work is strenuous enough, but of timber-getting is more arduous my ways—as a number of outdoor ors wlio thought otherwise, an<l red tho former for tho latter callknow to their sorrow. Of course, r outdoor worker, no matter the of work, considers that his is tho strenuous calling; but ho quiekanges his views if ho changes his lation to that of sawniilling. Then sally becomes ono of the hardestcd individuals in creation, and his ?r occupation appears like "a soft in comparison.

* * * a largely-attended meeting of era hold in I'aJiiatua, it was de-

to form a General Laborers' i to consist of drivers, laborers, It is intended to register under Trades Uniou Aft, and to join J.Z.F.L.

* * * > workers at tho Torakohe, Golden ccinoiib works have in ado all ne~ •y preparations towards forming a . It is understood that there is room for improvement in condiof labour thero.

* * • 0 Westport General Laborers' i, at a recent meeting, decided to ltd sub. to Gd. instead of 3d. per , and to supply each member with iy of "Tho Worker." It is ridicuin tho extreme for unions to try ratcli along on 3d. weekly.

nniston Miners' Union is reported aye voted £50 towards tho Lithstrikors, and to have levied thenis to tho extent of 5 per cent, upon earnings tor the support of those trike. This is working-class" supin deed —not in mere words.

conference of tho coalmine owners uw tfoaJAJiii wns held in Wellington week to discuss questions of intoro that monopoly. It was stated the principal item to bo discussas the action to be taken reyariliny request by the coahninors of tho >r district for a new agreement. known that the mine- owners' resntatives on tho West Coast have dy held a oonferenco Groy,h, and then adjourned to Velling;o discuss matters with the rest of Zealand owners. They apparently vo in tho dictum: "An injury to is tho concern of all."

t> A.W.U.j Qupcnshuid, at its veconl'on'nrej decided unanimously end €100 por annum ujxin tho purb of industrial Jitoraturo for cirtion among members. Good lor England! May N.Z. Unions follow

* * • o N.S.W. Cabinet has declined to nmend tho release of Hayes, Scully Williams, imprisoned in coimecwith tho Lithgow riots.

• • • , a recent meeting of the Nelson irers' Industrial Union of Workthc following resolutions, among rs, were carried unanimously:— . this Union is oi' opinion (a) that liform standard of wages for un>d general laborers should bo esshed throughout N<-\v Zealand; ihat iv vieiv of llio continually insing cost of living, the minimum > should be fixed at 10s. p*r day, ;a,iue as is being demanded in Cotiiry, Dunediu and other rentres. * ■» •

Labor is .1 'I'iiid, (j;iant, tcrinjr li'iii.'i , a:ul tliitlirr. but over E nm'l i•'■.r-i111ljj; forward." —Carlylo.

thost> whn nvo not for tis arc ist us." —iSc-ripturo.